This week, I want to highlight the importance of taking a step back to analyse the applications we develop for our clients.

Being a consultancy means that all of our projects are for third parties (clients) who hire us for our expertise in Ruby on Rails or because they need more manpower and thus need extra people to increase their development pace.

Our clients always tend to prioritise new features. They feel that advancing equals building new features, but we need to advise them to take other factors into consideration.

When I tell people that I’m an Office Manager working for an oficeless company – that is, a company without a physical office – they seem hesitant, frowning their eyebrows as if waiting for the impending punchline.

If there's no office… why does a company need an Office Manager? 🤔

Turns out, all-remote companies with distributed teams are more complex than most people think, and do require an Office Manager. Let's see why!

In some languages, they say that there's no two without three, meaning that if you've done something twice, you will do it a third time without a doubt.

In this case, I'd like to add that there's no three without four, as this is the fourth time sharing our New Year's resolutions, so if you want to learn more about our Martians and what are we up to, keep reading!

Over the course of the last four years, MarsBased has been investing a lot in the startup ecosystem of Barcelona. We felt it was our duty to invest heavily and become the change we wanted to see in the city.

Among other things, this has allowed us to strike a deal with Spaces to help them to bring community around their new base in Barcelona. Read on!